The fire has temporarily closed a section of the Great Ocean Road, which winds along Victoria’s coastline and past the region’s famed “Apostles” a collection of giant limestone stacks that jut dramatically out of the sea.
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Fast-moving wildfires on Christmas day destroyed more than 100 homes in southern Australia.
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“(We are) concentrating on the hazardous trees, and making sure we can get the roads open, the power companies able to declare the power lines all safe”, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning’s Alex Shilton told reporters on Sunday.
Mr Drayton said more than 150 firefighters, 60 fire trucks and eight waterbombing aircraft were at the scene.
Parts of Great Ocean Road – a popular scenic highway – were also shut down.
Rain provided some relief but bushfires were still raging Victoria this morning, with 53 homes confirmed lost and more in doubt in Wye River and Separation Creek overnight.
“It’s a massive plume of smoke – it nearly looks like a big nuclear bomb”, he said.
On Friday, some 1,600 residents and tourists were evacuated from Lorne amid fears that a wind change would push the fire towards the town, but were allowed to return on Saturday.
They brought the marsupial, of which only about 80,000 are believed to be left in the wild, to the fire station and then handed her over to Victoria police.
The fire is not yet under control, ABC reported.
In February 2009, Victoria suffered the worst bushfires in the country’s history when 173 people were killed and hundreds were injured in multiple blazes across rural areas of the state. Emergency officials are warning that dry conditions will incubate the fires, which will possibly reignite in a few weeks’ time.
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Regarding the fires threatening Kennett River and Grey River, incident controller Alistair Drayton said the spot fires were “significant” and breaking away to the south.
